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her little body is weak and tired. We shall have to act quickly. The only remedy for
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her is to be back in the Alps . This is my prescription and she must leave for home
tomorrow.’
‘You think I should send this child back in this weak condition when she had come

in good health? No, doctor, ask anything but that. Take her in hand and make her get
well before she goes back. Cure her first.’
‘Sesemann,’ the doctor replied seriously, ‘we cannot cure her with powders and pills.
The child has no strength and if you keep her here, she might never get well again. If

you restore her to the mountain air to which she is used to, she may recover and get
well again.’
When Mr Sesemann heard this, he said, ‘If that is your advice, we must act at once.’

Johanna Spyri (adapted)

Heidi went back to the Alps soon after. There she reunited with her grandfather, her friend Peter
and Peter’s grandmother. Read the novel Heidi by Johanna Spyri to see what happens next.

Johanna Spyri (1827–1901) wrote several stories for children but
is remembered for her novel Heidi. The novel was fi rst published in
1881 and has been adapted many times into diff erent languages,
movies and animation series.

Comprehension

A. Write whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).

1. Mr Sesemann and Dr Classen pointed their revolvers at Heidi.
2. Mr Sesemann took Heidi upstairs to her room.

3. Heidi talked in her sleep.

4. Every night Heidi dreamt that she was in Frankfurt with her father.

5. Dr Classen prescribed that Heidi go back to the Alps at once.

6. Mr Sesemann did not want to send Heidi home because she was sick.

13 remedy: (here) treatment 15 prescription: medicine or cure given by a doctor
14 Alps: a high mountain region in Switzerland where Heidi
had lived with her grandfather
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